Ametia Rikyrah SG2
Sleigh Ride” is a popular light orchestral piece composed by Leroy Anderson. The composer had the original idea for the piece during a heat wave in July 1946; he finished the work in February 1948. Lyrics, about a person who would like to ride in a sleigh on a winter’s day with another person, were written by Mitchell Parish in 1950. The orchestral version was first recorded in 1949 by Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra. The song was a hit record on RCA Victor Red Seal 49-0515 (45 rpm) / 10-1484 (78 rpm), and has become the equivalent of a signature song for the orchestra. The 45 rpm version was originally issued on red vinyl. This original mono version has never been available on CD, although the later 1959 re-recording is available in stereo. The orchestra has also recorded the song with John Williams, their conductor from 1979 to 1995, and Keith Lockhart, their current conductor.
Fast Talking Dyson was at the White House
https://twitter.com/MichaelEDyson/status/408378752033243136/photo/1
December 4, 2013
Work Inspired by Trayvon Martin Case to Have Premiere on Thursday
By FELICIA R. LEE
TURN MSNBC OFF! Hit them where it hurts. They have no respect for real journalism. For crying out loud they report what Limbaugh says as news.
yes, even Rev Al His show this evening was a DISGRACE
What was it about?
Clip after clip of that VILE Rash Limpballs.
You can erase this vid when you are done watching it, Ametia.
I can’t stand looking at the still.
Thanks!
https://twitter.com/marcusgilmer/status/408326334864035840/photo/1
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/408325727742730240/photo/1
Sunny has a way with folks. Got thread up can you add to thread post, please? Thank you Rik.
Rikyrah, where are you?!! LAWDHAMERCY
Whoa! What’s this about??
@Yahtc ABC’s show “Scandal”
LOL! Thanks…..I thought it was for real. I don’t watch TV now that I’ve discovered internet.
oh Huck..
Oh Huck…
LOL
Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC
Martin Bashir has resigned from MSNBC following weeks of controversy over his incendiary comments about Sarah Palin, he announced in an email posted by Mediaite on Wednesday.
“Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the president of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation,” the email read in part. “It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.”
In a statement, MSNBC president Phil Griffin paid tribute to Bashir:
“Martin Bashir resigned today, effective immediately. I understand his decision and I thank him for three great years with MSNBC. Martin is a good man and respected colleague – we wish him only the best.”
Bashir had been a host on the network since 2011, and had frequently raised eyebrows with his hyperbolic commentary. But his comments in November in response to remarks about slavery by Palin touched off a firestorm. Among other things, Bashir said that someone should defecate and urinate in Palin’s mouth, a punishment delivered to some slaves. He apologized, but the comments continued to haunt him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/04/martin-bashir-resigns-msnbc_n_4385884.html
I am so sorry to hear about Mr. Bashir. Martin was definitely a devoted President Obama supporter. I will definitely be putting him in my prayers.
Martin Bashir resigned? OMG! Noooo…
@SG2. Just sent you an e-mail. Ain’t that some shit. MSNBC is in the toilet, right along with CNN, FOX,CBS. Glenn Beck and that S Cupp or whatever have a show on CNN now too. GONE TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET
I tweeted to MSNBC …You forced Martin Bashir out. When will you learn? I hope your ratings tank down to the GROUND!
MSNBC is going the way of CNN VIA THE WAY OF FOX. Because any sane viewer will not sit through the nonsense they’re airing but TEABAGGERS.
No one can deliver more hyperbole than commentators on FOX. So glad I don’t watch these shows any more.
Mr. Bashir is a class act. He’ll get something better.
‘Inequality is ‘the defining issue of our time’
By Greg Sargent
December 4 at 2:01 pm
The speech on inequality that President Obama delivered just now will mostly pass unnoticed by the political world, with Republicans dismissing it as “class warfare” and an effort to distract from Obamacare, and pundits describing it more delicately as a ”pivot” away from the law.
But experts who see inequality as one of the most urgent moral, political and economic long term challenges facing the country will see it as one of the most important speeches of the Obama presidency – more ambitious than his similar 2011 speech in Kansas.
“This is a major speech on a topic that American presidents normally stay away from,” Tim Smeeding, an expert on inequality at the University of Wisconsin, tells me, adding that it compares in some ways to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s addresses. “The fact that a sitting president faced with a crowded agenda had the courage to discuss this overarching problem is historic.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/04/inequality-is-the-defining-issue-of-our-time/?wpisrc=nl%5Fpopns
Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC
27 min ago – Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC Jack Mirkinson The Huffington PostDec 04, 2013 Martin Bashir has resigned from MSNBC, he announced in an email posted by Mediaite on Wednesday. Bashir had been under fire for weeks after making highly incendiary comment.
http://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/4385884
Yesterday at 3:43 PM
Politico Stonewalls Mike Allen Payola Scandal
By Jonathan Chait
In the fifties, a bunch of rock stations got caught taking money from music producers to give their artists airtime. The “Payola” scam, as it was called, was sufficiently outrageous to become a major national scandal. Last month, Washington Post reporter Erik Wemple reported that Politico’s Mike Allen is running a similar scam — accepting lucrative payments from advertisers and lending his editorial voice to hyping, and sometimes parroting, their agenda. Given the relative importance of national politics vis-à-vis rock music, this struck me as a potentially career-ending revelation. Instead, Politico has ignored the report and carried on as if nothing at all were amiss.
But Politico couldn’t avoid all interviews forever, and in the course of appearing on “The Brian Lehrer Show” to hype Politico’s new Capital New York venture, CEO, former editor, and Allen co-author Jim VandeHei was asked about the payola allegations. His reply is a comical stream of evasive tripe:
VandeHei begins by calling the report “nonsense” without explicitly denying it. He asserts that a reporter “could find any pattern he wants to” in Allen’s prodigious output. Really? Any pattern? A pattern of support for Russian strongmen? A pattern of furtive endorsements of anarcho-syndicalism? Even if this were true, it misses the point altogether. One might analyze the patterns of a particular disk jockey and discover all sorts of peculiar preferences, but the only pattern that really matters is a pattern of giving favorable coverage to interests that are paying him. VandeiHei does not deny that Allen has done that.
Now, one possible defense of Allen is that what appears to be simple payola is actually a more sociologically complex phenomenon. Allen, as Wemple reports, has personal friendships with many of his sponsors, uses them as sources, and generally shares their point of view on most issues even while failing to acknowledge he has a point of view at all. This is less a defense than a concession that Allen is so hopelessly embedded within the Establishment that he can’t cover it in a remotely fair way. (This is exactly the argument I made.)
VandeHei’s final defense verges on parody: Allen, he argues, has “no business interest” in giving favorable treatment to advertisers. There is the fact that advertisers pay him $35,000 a week, or up to $1.8 million a year. If those clients realize that their paid advertisements also buy them favorable coverage in Playbook, that would make them dramatically more interested in paying Allen’s exorbitant rates.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/politico-stonewalls-mike-allen-payola-scandal.html
People who are doing the “Knock-out Game” punches are little, sissy pee-wee s.
Stories of Poverty
by BooMan
Wed Dec 4th, 2013 at 09:41:45 AM EST
I was greeted by two stories on page 5 of this morning’s Philadelphia Daily News. The first story is about a 92 year-old woman who perished in her Strawberry Mansion rowhouse yesterday when her kerosene heater caused a house fire. An elderly man who lived with her narrowly escaped the blaze.
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Two things about this. First, this is why we need to pay for heating assistance in the winter. Second, this is why the goddamned utility companies are not supposed to cut off your heat in the winter months.
The second story is about a 21 year-old man who was murdered over his pair of $300 Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. He was killed on Saturday, but his corpse remains in the morgue because his family cannot afford to pay the $2,200-$2,700 it will take to pay for a funeral home. Even worse, potential witnesses refuse to cooperate with the police.
Even though Christian Massey was 21, he only graduated from high school in June. He had started high school at a special-needs facility that is part of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, but he was able to transfer into the Marple Newtown school district where he participated in basketball and football. His football coach is trying to raise money for his burial, and you can help by calling the Marple Newtown School at (610) 359-4215.
These are stories of poverty, and you can react to them with empathy and compassion or dismiss these people as deserving of their fate and not your problem. It’s your choice.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/12/4/94145/1821
The ‘unemployment cliff’ looms large
12/04/13 11:00 AM—Updated 12/04/13 12:13 PM
By Steve Benen
In just 24 days, federal emergency unemployment benefits will expire for a whole lot of struggling Americans. Suzy Khimm calls it the “unemployment cliff.”
For congressional Democrats, the solution is fairly obvious: the parties are already engaged in budget talks, which have picked up a little steam of late, and there’s no reason lawmakers can’t boost the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program before the deadline.
The problem, of course, is that congressional Republicans don’t want to. They’re not even trying to mask their intentions.
Keep in mind, this isn’t just about the fate of struggling Americans looking for work in a time of high unemployment, though the effects on them would be severe. This is also about the economy overall – the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday that failing to extend benefits will cost the U.S. economy 200,000 jobs in 2014 (thanks to my colleague Robert Lyon for the heads-up).
Why would the job losses be so significant? Because as we’ve discussed many times, unemployment benefits are stimulative – the jobless don’t stick the funds in the bank; they spend the money. Take away the benefits, and the economy overall takes a hit.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-unemployment-cliff-looms-large
Cantor’s incomplete vision
12/04/13 01:00 PM
By Steve Benen
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) doesn’t have much in the way of a legislative record, but he’s invested an enormous amount of time and energy into “rebranding” campaigns, launching four initiatives in four years. They haven’t gone well, but the Virginia Republican keeps at it anyway.
A closer look at Cantor’s rebranding efforts reveals a consistent theme: the Majority Leader believes he and his party have credible solutions to existing problems, and should the GOP must make more of an effort to emphasize the party’s pragmatism. This came up the other day when Cantor sat down the Richmond Times Dispatch.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/cantors-incomplete-vision
Just cause
http://youtu.be/aJ3PEtkIw1k
Arctic invasion: Brutal weather system threatens most of US with snow, ice, wind
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/03/21734950-arctic-invasion-brutal-weather-system-threatens-most-of-us-with-snow-ice-wind?lite
An enormous, brutal mass of arctic air is shoving south over most of the United States — threatening 32 million people for the rest of the week with snow, ice, wind and extraordinary drops in the temperature.
Some of the country’s biggest cities are being hit: Ice threatens to knock out power in Dallas, Denver could get almost a foot of snow, and Chicago could plunge from the mid-50s on Wednesday to the low teens by Friday night.
“This cold air is going to overtake just about the entire country,” said Carl Parker, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel.
In Duluth, Minn., more than 2 feet of snow fell Tuesday, and at least another foot is expected Wednesday. Many streets are already impassable, and police reported dozens of crashes on snowy roads. By Friday, the temperature there could be minus 22.
A winter storm has brought heavy snowfall to Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota among other states in the region. In the West, parts of Oregon were hit with more than 9 inches of snow and the foothills near Sparks, Nev., saw 8.5 inches. Weather Channel’s Mike Seidel reports from Duluth, Minn.
The heavy snow in Minnesota is expected to be compounded by wind as strong as 40 mph. Because the snow is relatively light in weight, not the soggy, clumpy variety, it could cause “ground blizzard” conditions there, Parker said.
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LOL Where’s that mink coat?
Consumer Reports on healthcare site: ‘It’s terrific’
12/03/13 04:15 PM—Updated 12/04/13 09:21 AM
By Steve Benen
Over the last month or so, opponents of the Affordable Care Act have eagerly touted Consumer Reports’ “opposition” to healthcare.gov – for the right, if the independent, consumer-friendly outlet disapproves of the administration’s exchange marketplace, it proves … Obamacare is bad.
In reality, Consumer Reports’ position has always been more nuanced than conservative activists and lawmakers would have us believe. The consumer advocates, for example, defended the Obama administration from criticism on canceled plans through the individual market, rejecting Republican talking points altogether. Consumer Reports also played a role in debunking some of the ACA horror stories that the right has been so invested in.
That said, the consumer advocates did warn the public about the problems plaguing healthcare.gov, urging Americans to wait until the site improved before creating accounts and selecting insurance (though Consumer Reports pushed back against far-right efforts to exploit the position). Today, however, it reversed course and changed its verdict.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/consumer-reports-backs-health-care-site
Chris Christie’s immigration problem
12/04/13 09:00 AM
By Steve Benen
Shortly after his landslide re-election victory, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) hit the Sunday shows, where he was asked for his opinion on comprehensive immigration reform. The Republican governor, who’s cultivated a reputation as a fearless straight-talker, ducked – Christie, who’d already endorsed the policy in years past, suddenly refused to speak his mind.
It was an unsettling display of cowardice, but it was also a reminder that Christie has no idea what to do with this issue. On the one hand, the New Jersey chief executive wants to appeal to Latino voters and the American mainstream. On the other, he has national ambitions and realizes his party’s radicalized base has no tolerance for bipartisan immigration solutions.
This week, the tension is playing out in an awkward way. Christie already endorsed a “tuition equality” policy that would offer in-state tuition to New Jersey students, even if they entered the country illegally. But when lawmakers moved forward on a bill that would do exactly that, the governor balked, threatened a veto, and insisted this doesn’t count as a flip-flop.
The editorial board of the Star Ledger, the state’s largest newspaper, is unimpressed.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/chris-christies-immigration-problem
Terrified and Trying to Dodge the IRS, ALEC Hides Under Shadow Group
By: Sarah Jones more from Sarah Jones
Wednesday, December, 4th, 2013, 11:19 am
ALEC begins their 3 day nationwide meeting today, Wednesday the 4th. All of the big deals in the GOP will be there — including former VP candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Ted Shutdown Cruz (R-TX).
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which claims it does not lobby even though it creates model legislation that its Republican legislative members like John Boehner and Paul Ryan then implement, is concerned about being investigated by the IRS for their charitable tax status claims, according to internal documents from ALEC published by The Guardian.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/04/terrified-irs-corporate-lobbyist-alec-opens-social-welfare-group.html
3 Chics will be live-blogging the WH Youth Summit. Hope to see you there Luvvie.
President delivers remarks on the economy happening now
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
LOL Mine doesn’t quite fit in the stocking
Your dose of Maddow for the day!
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Medicaid expansion becomes weapon against GOP governors
By Greg Sargent
December 3 at 3:28 pm
It’s widely accepted as an article of faith that Obamacare will be uniformly bad politics for Dems in 2014. After all, the rollout is a disaster and majorities disapprove of the law, so how could it possibly be any other way, right?
Here’s something that counter-programs that narrative a bit: Democrats are currently using a major pillar of the health law — the Medicaid expansion — as a weapon against Republican Governors in multiple 2014 races. Many of these Governors opted out of the expansion or have advanced their own replacement solutions, and many are facing serious challenges.
In Florida, Democrat Charlie Crist has excoriated GOP Governor Rick Scott for dragging his feet on the Medicaid expansion, claiming a “million” Floridians “will not get health care” as a result. In Wisconsin, Democrat Mary Burke is campaigning on a pledge to reverse GOP Governor Scott Walker’s decision to turn down $119 million in federal money to expand Medicaid to more low-income Wisconsinites.
In Pennsylvania, multiple Dems looking to run for governor are attacking GOP Governor Tom Corbett for subbing in his own plan to expand Medicaid, arguing it’s a ploy to defuse the issue. In Maine, Dem Rep. Mike Michaud is attacking GOP Governor Paul LePage for refusing to opt in.
Some Dems running for governor in red states, such as South Carolina, may not embrace the Medicaid expansion debate as directly. But the fact that it’s emerging as an issue in some high profile races is a reminder that it’s still good politics for Dems to campaign on components of the Affordable Care Act that directly impact many of the constituents these GOP governors represent. Terry McAuliffe was just elected governor of purple Virginia partly on the Medicaid expansion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/03/medicaid-expansion-becomes-weapon-against-gop-governors/
This is one of my absolutely FAVORITE videos. (I have been trying to relocated it since last June!)
Enjoy!
Paul Krugman: Unacceptable Realities
…. The hysteria over Obamacare is being well documented … what I see a lot in my inbox (and in my reading): the furious insistence that nothing resembling a government guarantee of health insurance can possibly work.
That’s a curious belief to hold, given the fact that every other advanced country has such a guarantee …. but nothing makes these people as angry as the suggestion that Obamacare might actually prove workable.
And it’s going to get worse. For two months, thanks to the botched rollout, their delusions seemed confirmed by reality. Now that things are getting better, however, you can already see the rage building….
…. what you have to conclude is that there are a large number of people who find reality — the reality that governments are actually pretty good at providing health insurance…— just unacceptable…
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/unacceptable-realities/?_r=2&
I personally don’t need to read thousands of words to understand and know why a small segment of America is driving the “government is BAD” meme.
http://wrkf.org/post/malcolm-lees-movies-african-americans-are-just-people
I saw Best Man Holiday last Sunday. It’s already become a classic holiday movie for me.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/74879/meet-carl-hart-the-scientist-debunking-america-s-myths-about-drugs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-oped-project-/african-american-hair_b_4379551.html
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/Stories/2013/Dec03/nypa.html
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Very high traffic numbers for http://HealthCare.gov since fix:
Monday: 1 million visits (~18,000 signed up)
Tuesday: 950,000 visits
6:38 AM – 4 Dec 2013
“Mother & Daughter Literary Team Fuse Psychology, Science Fiction & African American Identity in Compelling New Series”
http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/mother-daughter-literary-team-fuse-psychology-science-fiction-african-american-identity-in-compelling-new-series-399709.htm
Thanks for this, Yahtc. Looking forward to reading this article.
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HUGE BEAT: 215,000 NEW JOBS (Est. +170,000) http://read.bi/1bI33op
7:15 AM – 4 Dec 2013
It’a ALL OBAMA’s fault!
“Obama Offers Second Chance For Missouri Court Nominee”
http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/obama-offers-second-chance-missouri-court-nominee
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Imagine insulting a Pope because he cares for the hungry, homeless & sick. Imagine denying food, shelter & care to MILLIONS. That’s the @GOP
1:09 AM – 4 Dec 2013
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Wow!
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GET’EM PRETTY WOMAN!
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This pic is All kinds of AWESOME!
Miracles happen everyday!!
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During the last 40 years there have been five budget surpluses, all five were under Democratic Presidents:
1969, 1998, 1999, 2000- 2001.
11:34 PM – 3 Dec 2013
12 Years a Slave and the Obama Era
By Jonathan Chait
This last weekend, I finally saw 12 Years a Slave. It was the most powerful movie I’ve ever seen in my life, an event so gripping and terrifying that, when I went to bed ten hours later — it was a morning matinee — I lay awake for five hours turning it over in my mind before I could fall asleep. I understand it not merely as the greatest film about slavery ever made, as it has been widely hailed, but a film more broadly about race. Its sublimated themes, as I understand them, identify the core social and political fissures that define the American racial divide to this day. To identify 12 Years a Slave as merely a story about slavery is to miss what makes race the furious and often pathological subtext of American politics in the Obama era.
While its depiction of physical torture has commanded the most attention, I found the psychological torture more disturbing. To make a person a slave requires making them complicit in their own subservience, through rituals of degradation, such as forcing them to clap their hands to mocking songs, dancing for their masters, or being stripped, or compared to animals. The one time Northrup tries to escape, he wanders immediately onto a lynch party, which underscores the threat of violence lurking invisibly everywhere. (And the threat of the noose survived in the South a century past the threat of the lash.)
Notably, the most horrific torture depicted in 12 Years a Slave is set in motion when the protagonist, Solomon Northrup, offers up to his master engineering knowledge he acquired as a free man, thereby showing up his enraged white overseer. It was precisely Northrup’s calm, dignified competence in the scene that so enraged his oppressor. The social system embedded within slavery as depicted in the film is one that survived long past the Emancipation Proclamation – the one that resulted in the murder of Emmett Till a century after Northrup published his autobiography. It’s a system in which the most unforgivable crime was for an African-American to presume himself an equal to — or, heaven forbid, better than — a white person.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/12-years-a-slave-and-the-obama-era.html
This is why many white folks don’t want to see the movie, as well as many blacks.
Some Whites can’t accept that they’ve been fed a LIE about their superiority, and some Blacks can’t accept their own DIVINITY and greatness because they too bought into the white supremacy lie
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Nice to see certain GOP members take a break from worrying about the Latino vote to smear the 1st Latin American Pope.
9:18 PM – 3 Dec 2013
Another ACA horror story fades away
12/03/13 09:15 AM—Updated 12/03/13 06:32 PM
By Steve Benen
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was pretty aggressive yesterday in pushing the latest Affordable Care Act horror story, this time about a New York father who was reportedly told his 18-month-old daughter couldn’t be included on the family’s plan. Boehner promoted the story on his site and Twitter feed to help get the word out.
And since we’re talking about the nation’s most powerful lawmaker, and not some random conservative activist, perhaps this one deserves to be taken seriously? Actually, no – Boehner was pushing the latest bogus tale.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/another-aca-horror-story-fades-away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW1353tsqcU
The HATRED for the BLACK PRESIDENT IS SOOOOOO REAL
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GOP House Decides 2nd Amendment Has Limits, Approves Gun Control Measure
By: Keith Brekhus more from Keith Brekhus
Tuesday, December, 3rd, 2013, 10:34 pm
Second Amendment absolutists might be disappointed today upon discovering that the Republican controlled US House approved an extension of a gun ban. On a unanimous voice vote, the US House agreed to extend the Undetectable Firearms Act, continuing a 25-year-old prohibition against guns that can evade metal detectors and X-ray machines. The law was first put into effect in 1988, and signed into law by President Reagan. The House bill requires that any plastic gun have some piece of metal in it or on it so that it cannot be used to evade a metal detector.
This decision of course illustrates that even Republicans in the US House think there are limits to the 2nd Amendment. Even though they are fond of arguing that criminals do not obey laws apparently they are convinced that this particular law may be an exception. Of course, metal detectors are most often used in places like airports and courthouses, and perhaps Republicans think that these are locations where criminals and terrorists are not likely to enter anyway. Or maybe, just maybe, even Republican lawmakers are a little concerned that undetectable firearms do not really belong inside a crowded courtroom or a busy airport.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/03/gop-house-decides-2nd-amendment-limits-approves-gun-control-measure-voice-vote.html
hope you’ll join us for live blogging 12-29-13!!!
Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine & Carlos Santana
Will Receive 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors
America to Celebrate the Careers of Five Extraordinary Artists Sunday, December 8, 2013
Gala will be broadcast on CBS on December 29, 2013 at 9:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/
At de Blasio’s City Hall, Expect an Outsize Role for His Wife
By MICHAEL BARBARO and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Published: December 3, 2013
Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, was fed up. An ad for her
husband’s political opponent was running on her favorite radio station,
and she wanted the de Blasio campaign to respond.
“How much money do I have to raise this week to deal with this affront?” she wrote in a blunt email to her husband’s top aides in 2009,
mischievously warning that if the ad interrupted a cherished R & B
show, “I might get road rage.”
Such interventions from Ms. McCray were not unusual: Mr. de Blasio urged his political team to heed her words. In an email of his own, he shared his wife’s suggestions for how best to disseminate a campaign brochure in the race for public advocate that featured the diverse de Blasio family. (One idea: “Give it out at beauty salons.”)
The email’s subject line was telling: “This is the word of Chirlane.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/nyregion/at-de-blasios-city-hall-expect-an-outsize-role-for-his-wife.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1386165692-UerwwXy6Y943TLM+KSYW3w&
BWA HA HA HA Where are all those feminist now? They don’t want none of ….
Chirlane de Blasio
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BREAKING: Two million stolen passwords from Facebook and Yahoo are found online at a Russian site http://zite.to/IMZFNc
Retweeted by Jeff Gauvin
*wonderwhatoleeddiesnowden’sbeendoingtokeephimselfbusyinrusssia*
JUST SAYIN
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Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) admits on @Morning_Joe that there will be “millions of winners” under Obamacare.
6:15 AM – 4 Dec 2013
I know my stocking’s gonna be filled with GOODIES. I’ve been a good 3 Chic. LOL
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This proves the media is DEAD. They can’t even report an OBVIOUS FACT. Just fluff and scandal about POTUS and obsucre folks who we don’t give a rat’s ass about.
The Obama Recovery, The Pope, and the Collective Right Wing Freakout
Tuesday, December 03, 2013 | Posted by Spandan C at 4:05 PM
Despite Republican efforts to slow down, halt, and throw monkey wrenches into the economic recovery at every possible turn, the Obama recovery insists on continuing. Yesterday, two important indicators of growth happened for the economy: US manufacturing growth reached its strongest point in two-and-a-half years, and consumer demand blew the lid off of online sales, growing by as much as 20% year-over-year on Cyber Monday (with online retail giant Amazon.com growing sales by a whopping 44%).
All that is looking to usher in another month with job growth at around 200,000. And like putting salt on the Obamacare naysayers’ wound, just as the website was getting fixed, small businesses added jobs for the first time in four months. Oh, and Obamacare is going to cost less than projected.
America is making things again. Small businesses are hiring. Consumers are buying. Obamacare is signing people up while costing less. Syria is disarming. Iran is giving up its nuclear ambitions. Therefore, of course, Republicans are losing their sh*t, now this close to arguing that the Pope, just like Obama, is a Marxist who hates Catholics!
What does the recent good economic and foreign policy news and desperate Republican attempts to undermine the economy and manipulate the media have to do with Rush Limbaugh’s crackle with the pontiff, you ask? Everything. The right wing panic of the moment and the Republican obstructionism of President Obama throughout his presidency have the same root: they are afraid that the pragmatic, progressive approach to governance embodied by President Obama will work. And if it works, no amount of Fox News bobbleheading or playing the refs on the rest of the media will end up having lasting effect.
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/12/the-obama-recovery-pope-and-collective.html
CONGRATULATIONS, LUVVIE!!!
Winding Down the Year, Going to the White House and on Vacation!
December 3, 2013 | Luvvie
My peoples! It’s the last month of 2013 and I’m amazed at how fast this year went by. Time ain’t playing no bald-headed games. I plan on spending this month taking it slower than usual. Well, after this week that is.
Today, I’m headed to Washington DC until Thursday because I was invited to the White House Youth Summit!
The Youth Summit is tomorrow (December 4) and 150 young leaders from around the country will be at the White House to discuss the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and other pressing issues concerning us. Senior officials will be present and it’s going to last 4 hours.
They’re inviting people to watch the the Summit live starting at 2:00 pm ET on Whitehouse.gov/live and they’ll be taking questions through Twitter, using the #WHYouthSummit hashtag. So you can join the conversation wherever you are for that first hour!
WHOOT! I’m so excited and I’m honored to have been chosen to be a part of this. I’m representing The Red Pump Project (@RedPumpProj) and the work we do in HIV/AIDS advocacy, so of course I’ll be rocking fierce red pumps! But why was my outfit the first thing I thought about when I got my invite email a month ago? I was all “WHAT AM I GON’ WEAR TO BARACK AND MICHELLE’S HOUSE?!?” And no, I won’t be dressing like Olivia Pope. My gals have approved my ALPHET so I’ma strut in there looking like a bag of professional money. OWWWWWW! I’ll post my ensemble on Instagram (@Luvvie), so follow me there!
I will also be at the White House holiday tour on Thursday. They’re gonna see my face in the building TWICE. I promise to at least do one solid jig while I’m on premises. And if I see First Lady, I’ma tell her she’s everything!
http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2013/12/white-house-vacation-winding-down.html
CONGRATULATIONS, Luvvie! Yes; lady, you certainly deserve the trip to the WH.
And when you do meet the First Lady, your telling her she’s “EVERYTHING” will also be our message too. So thank you, Luvvie. <3
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Totally enjoying this Christmas music…you’re getting me in the spirit, SG2!
Good Morning, Rikyrah & Everyone! The music totally has me in the spirit, that and the 5 inches of snow we got overnight. *slipsonbootsgloveshatcoat*
Good Morning, Rikyrah, Ametia and Everyone :)
5 inches of snow! You’ve got a winter wonderland, Ametia!
Yes; and it’s still coming down. Probably 8-10 before it ends. I need to get my mink. LOL
Wow! You ARE getting the snow, Ametia!
Bundle up good!
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@Yahtc BEA-U–T-FUL!
What is your snow total at this point, Ametia?
Good morning, everyone!
What’s in your stockings? :)
See above *SNICKERS*